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Show 'All Is Sour In Hollywood' Ex-Press Agent Says Movie Capital Dead NEW YORK, N.- Y. Jaik Ros-enstein, Ros-enstein, self-styled critic of Hollywood, Holly-wood, says the movie capital never will produce another great film star. He claims Hollywood is "dead." Rosenstein wrote the book "Hollywood "Hol-lywood Leg Man," an account of his experiences as a reporter foi the gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper. Hop-per. Before that he was a press agent for many of filmdom's highest high-est salaried stars. "Hollywood, although still clutching clutch-ing its mantle of genius, is finished," fin-ished," Rosenstein said: "Everything "Every-thing has gone sour out there. "The writers are bitter and frustrated. frus-trated. The producers are fat, lazy and unimaginative. The new actors are mostly freaks bored with their jobs. None have ever acquired or learned any real artistry." Rosenstein complains that the "atmosphere" of Hollywood is "sickeningly phoney" and that even the famous "cheesecake" of filmland film-land had lost its appeal because it's "too glossy" and "not circusy enough." "For several years now, Hollywood Holly-wood has been trying to be something some-thing It isn't," he said. "It has been trying to preach to the public; to tell stories of 'Great Social Significance.' Signifi-cance.' "It has lost touch with reality. It doesnt give the public what it wants any more. The producers-most producers-most of whom sit behind four secretaries sec-retaries and eight receiving rooms, are afraid to try new faces, afraid of new ideas." |